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Flat design has been continuing virtually unchallenged for some time now, and it’s started to develop sub-styles. One of the most popular new trends is long shadow design, and you’d have to have been living under a rock not to have seen it.

Long shadow design is often abused by trend-chasing designers who want to seem hip, but used correctly and it’s a great tool. This Modern Long Shadow Icon Set provides a consistent, positive message. The use of the popular circular icon format together with the flat design color scheme mean they’ll fit well with almost any flat design project.

All of the icons are designed using vector shapes in Photoshop, so you can scale them to any size without losing quality. The whole set is free for personal and commercial use.

File Type Icons is a set of 62 different file extension icons. They are designed in long shadow flat design style. You can see some of the most popular filename extensions like .png, .jpg, .exe, .dmg and .txt. If you need an icon that is not in the list, you can easily make or add one by yourself by modifying the AI source file.

File Type Icons come with AI, ICO and PNG format. They can be resized and can easily change colors. You can use the royalty-free icons for any personal, commercial project including web design, software, application, advertising, film, video, computer game, gui design, illustration, for you or for your clients for FREE.

WebdesignerDepot has released a set of 200 vector icons free for download. They are fantastic for use on all manner of sites. With subjects ranging from science to entertaining, the vast scope of the icons means that you’re bound to find something useful.

This vector icon pack includes 200 vector shapes, meaning you can scale them up as much as you like and they’ll stay sharp. Each file includes AI, EPS, PSD and JPG files. They’re good for use on both personal and professional projects.

Jorge Calvo is a graphic and web designer with over ten years of experience in the industry. Much of his experience is working with PS, Ai, inDesign, Quarkqpress and Dreamweaver. He has designed a set of Super Cool Minimalist Flat Icons. You can get them in EPS format and can be used for both personal and commercial projects. You can download the icons directly from the attachment.

Simple click to select the icons to your font. By including only the icons you need, you make your website faster. You can also customize your font. Keep the standard settings, or change the character and CSS mapping to make it easier to code. And finally download a packaged folder including all the fonts, the HTML & CSS code, and a reference page.

Forecast Font is a web-font for creating multi-layered weather icons. It was created to enable you to have more control over the look and feel of the icons, rather than only having a single colour or style.

Flat, single-colour icons might be what your after and thats cool but with Forecast font you have all the flexibility to colour, style or even animate various parts of the icons. Create something a little different from the norm. Even better they are fully scalable for use on all devices, no need to create cumbersome image sprites or use multiple images to create your weather icons.

Map Icons Designer is a set of 200 Map icons in PSD Vector Shape & PNG format. They can be used as Google Map Icons, Location Markers, Point of Interests (POI) on any Maps. It includes icons for tourism, sports, restaurants, hotels, transportation and etc. It’s sutiable to use them in Google Maps API.

There are 10 different type of location pins. They can be resized and can easily change colors. You can use the royalty-free map icons for any personal, commercial project including web design, software, application, advertising, film, video, computer game, gui design, illustration, for you or for your clients, without having to pay additional licensing fees.

Simplicity Vector Icon Set is designed to create a simple looking set that can fit into every project. With this set, we hope your project will be given a clean and prominent feel. They can be scaled to any custom sizes while the quality is still intact.

Web Icon Set has released a set of Free Simplicity Vector Icons. There are total 50 vector icons in 16-512px size. They come in PNG and PSD format. Simply Click the Download button and enter $0, and then you will get them for free if you want. They are free for personal and commercial projects. They are suitable for websites and web applications.

For a commercial site, and with the proliferation of online payment services, you may need to have buttons showing the logos of Online Payment Service Providers. Here is a set of 75 Free Buttons For Online Payment Service Providers that you can place on your website or online business on your forms of payment.

These icons are available in PNG format in two sizes (99×66 and 64×43). You will also find generic icons payment methods. A blank PSD is also included in the ZIP file. This resource file is free for personal and commercial use. You are allowed to use it in your projects, change it and adapt for your purposes.